color display with man pages

[Mark LaPierre]

On 07/22/14 04:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 22 13:37, Amila Perera wrote:
>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried with bash, it seems to work ... somewhat.  I see a yellow status
>>> at the bottom, but otherwise I see a regular man page.  When I `type
>>> man' after defining your function, I get a few colours among the variable
>>> definitions (blue, red, and underlined).
>>>
>>
>> Well, I only get the yellow status line color and some variables getting
>> bold.
>> I have never tried this with bash, though.
> 
> Try this additionally to setting the LESS_TERMCAP_xx vars:
> 
>   export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes
> 

Hey Corinna,

Could you share some more details on how to use the "LESS_TERMCAP_xx
vars" and "export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes" commands?  I'm assuming that you put
them in your .bashrc file, no?

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